National Black Poetry Day: "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

In this poem, Paul Laurence Dunbar, a son of former slaves, suggests that some people wear masks in order to hide the pain that others do not want to hear about (which robs them of their true identities).

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